I guess in life, if things are not hard earned, they are not as rewarding. Spiritually speaking. That applies to your recent promotion, you love life, those pineapple tarts that you have spent hours and hours of cooking to find that perfect balance, those regular practice sessions for climbing that one mountain, and etc. Not to over-dramatize, like I often do, the Spanish examination at Las Lilas is not that tough. Objectively speaking. But as always, I hardly see Cynthia doing revision and she gets a score of 96 for the level lower intermediate 2. I have studied days and nights, in any location you can imagine (except my bathroom !por favor!), even spent much time revising Spanish in our recent trip to Bandung, I am still behind Cynthia’s supreme linguistic ability. The good news is that the gap is closing! I have hit a score of 90, the highest I have attained to date. To be fair, I think our teacher Natalia has been generously lenient when marking my examination paper. And she is very encouraging too, recognizing the effort I have poured into this new language.
Some ask how many levels are there in my Spanish language course. I have no clue. Unlike Cynthia and some of my classmates who are eying at the end level, I am more focus on how far I can go. And we shall see.
In this new level – intermediate 1 - one lady has left us, three ladies have joined. Male species remain as the minority in our class. More so than before. I am not surprised.
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oh yes the pineapple tart analogy – I can relate
Embarking on massive baking project starting TONIGHT!
Congrats to you and Cynthia!
Another trip to spain for you guys so you can practice your spanish again?
G – I am eager to try your melt-in-your-mouth-pineapple-tart!
Yep. Cynthia and I should visit Spain again this year.
Woo congrats!
Si Ying – Thanks! So, when are you resuming your Spanish lessons?!
Yeah cos I probably have to walk quite a bit to make my way home so I am still considering when is the best time to continue again !
Si Ying – Ah, I see. It is kind of out of the way, come to think of it.
Yeah I have a bus from my place to bencoolen but weird there is no bus back. haha
Si Ying – Very weird! I thought buses always go in bi-directional? As in they always pass by the same area in either direction?
ya i am not sure whether it’s just that the route that the bus 7 takes or it’s due to the (messy) roads at bugis. but apparently the route of bus 7 avoids the whole of victoria street and bras basah (for the direction of bedok-clementi)
Dude, you’ve got higher than me la… you have over-taken the “top student” liao la!!! I’ve got to sit next to you in our next exam man
PK – No way man. You did the exam on heroic mode! Not much “collaboration” as I observed … he he he.
You *were* sitting next to me! Ha ha ha. Maybe that’s why I scored … kekeke. I shall continue to sit next to you and … erm … look up for answers.